bear weights (field dressed-out weights)

[carl siegle]

hey wasnt trying to bust your balls

yeah ill be there. so will josh
i think im going to stay out at pond sat. night
you want to hear some stories hang around the fire at the field trial on a sat night after the bottle goes around i did last year once. it was fun i just sat there and smiled alot not saying a damn thing.


ok you better make it.

so are you going flatbed?

[Jason Waterhouse]

Thats a nice bear george was that a new hampshire bear? or maine Ive never killed a big one yet just a few in the 200 s Ive seen a few big ones just never pulled the trigger. Im not sure what the biggest bear in Vermont is. I over heard duane smith telling some guy the other day at the apa days that he killed one years ago that was over 500lbs in Vt.

[Darvin Ecklund]

Carl you were right, josh and John were there. And you are right about the hound hunter BS. I was once told I out ran a security guard in my flatbed hound rig on weyhauser land. Sure glad I put that bigger motor in my rig. Not sure where is came from, only who it came from. Sometimes a houndman (so they call themselves) will do anything to better themselves to make you look bad and in turn allow them to hunt for a timber company. Sorry, still a little bitter about a couple of these stories from one old lady to another. I am going to try and catch up to you guys . Haven't seen ya in a long time. I'm going to make some calls and find out where this thing is taking place. Take care PM me your # and lets talk hunting.

Darvin

[Ike]

Two part Question :
A) your states heavest bear taken over dogs
B) the heavestiest bear your dog was on and bear harvested

http://www.ingramwildlife.com/bear.htm

Here is a good one for you cecil, no weight but it was a state muzzleloader record and number two muzzleloader world record when it was killed. I had it mounted life size on a grizzly bear manneqin, and it now hungs next to my computer..........

My taxidermist told me that when he fletched that bear it hung over both ends of his work table, which has an eight foot surface.

[cecil j.]

Two part Question :
A) your states heavest bear taken over dogs
B) the heavestiest bear your dog was on and bear harvested

http://www.ingramwildlife.com/bear.htm

Here is a good one for you cecil, no weight but it was a state muzzleloader record and number two muzzleloader world record when it was killed. I had it mounted life size on a grizzly bear manneqin, and it now hungs next to my computer........

Dang Ike that flat a barr ! Sounds like one of them Canada brownnies x too a usa black bear / seen one up by Jones Store above Fresno Dome Rock rd. and I had a mtn lion treed up behind the cabenstore and I went back up on the trail behind the store and run accrost som humunguss bear tracks (biggest I eve have seen) and was huge claws marks ! All I had was a colt 45 cal pistole. I came off thattrail back down too the store and run intoo a few loggers haven lunch at a table out side/they said they had hounds and was from Ore. they said what have your dogs got trrd up ? I said a mtn lion.Then he screaned twice right on cue! They said we hunt cat at home our selvers/so I drug-out my duble nickled plated colt and said here you go kill him I`ll loan ya my gun ! Oh no they said not us we dont want to get in trouble ! we all laughfed. I just wanted too see what they would do as they walked up that trail the bear was on as they headed for my hounds.
There was a big dump pit a little further up that trail and I figured that bear was layen-around the pit !hahahaha !!!

jack

[ryan goodwin]

The biggest last spring was 392 1/2.The average bears we killed tho where 200-250+.And iam with you darvin no scope on my bear gun i have seen alot of bad crap happin with them things.Carl how the heck you been its allways a hoot seeing you up ther at are feild trials in rock port and sittin around the fire thats allways fun. We sure here some good storries. But its still fun

[Borderpond]

Jason, that was a Maine bear.Biggest I ever took in N.H had a dressed weight of 387. Yup, 2 biggest bears I have had taken over my dogs ,422 and 387.Funny thing, everyone I talk to that has seen a bear in their bird feeder or trash tell me they all weigh 500lbs !! LOL
I actually ran and killed one of them a few years ago.Nuisance bear in someones field harrassing their horses (supposably).It was 4 to 600 lbs according to the landowner.Started the track right where he saw the bear leave the field.Treed a couple miles away.It dressed out at 187. Landowner said it had to have been a different bear than the one he saw !!!!!

[cecil j.]

Jason, that was a Maine bear.Biggest I ever took in N.H had a dressed weight of 387. Yup, 2 biggest bears I have had taken over my dogs ,422 and 387.Funny thing, everyone I talk to that has seen a bear in their bird feeder or trash tell me they all weigh 500lbs !! LOL
I actually ran and killed one of them a few years ago.Nuisance bear in someones field harrassing their horses (supposably).It was 4 to 600 lbs according to the landowner.Started the track right where he saw the bear


leave the field.Treed a couple miles away.It dressed out at 187. Landowner said it had to have been a different bear than the one he saw !!!!!

Ronnie Monroe back in the later 1980`s inberressed us all in th San Joaquine Houndsmen club by killing a state record killed over hounds 500 lb black bear BY GOD
The best part of this story is as followed :has a 30-06 semi auto rifle and emptys it into the bear and eventually is out of bulletswith him The bear isent dead and is trying too get up and to get Ronnie so all thats left is big rocks and Ronnie if frantically hoysting them with 2 hands up over his head and plumiting them down on the bears head ! He get er don by thunder and I`d suspect hes a more than little weak-kneed and wobbly shoucken overhis ordeal....he retold all this a our next club meeting in the upper Bank Of Allex Brown building room and I noticed,Rick Summers,Shorty Martin,Buch Trigg and others looking down and sheepishly away...so I say hey is all that true ? Shorty and Don Poore said yep and Ronnie shows me the news paper story of it/ just happen to bring it along ! good for ol Monroe ....

[onalimb]

I took this one in the fall of 2000. 400 pounds, and packing a huge amount of fat.


Took this one in May of last year, had to pack him out in pieces. I don't know what he weighed, 100-110 pounds maybe? Probably should have let him go until he grew up.

[Ankle Express]

North Carolina
Bear Hunters Association


The North Carolina Bear Hunters Association (NCBHA) is a organization dedicated to the proper conservation and management of NC’s black bears, public education, and protection of our bear hunting heritage.

For over 300 years North Carolina bear hunters have pursued the most challenging and formidable creature of the wilderness; the black bear. North Carolina, like few other states provides the black bear with some of the most accommodating habitat in North America.

North Carolina's eastern third is a coastal plain and features some of the most impenetrable terrain in which bear can live and flourish. Frequently characterized as swamps, wetland wilderness, and jungle-like bay’s. This area has produced three of the Top Ten North American record bears, including the world record bear based on weight at an astounding 880 pounds, and another bear which captured the world record based on 21-7/8 points as the largest ever taken with the aid of dogs.

In the west, North Carolina benefits from the Great Smokey Mountains range and the mountain foothills home to one of the old bear populations on the continent. This vertical environment is home to the tallest and most rugged mountains on the North American eastern coast.

We are responsible hunters, placing the welfare of the species ahead of our sport and hunting pleasure.

[snowy river black and tan]

Onalimb thats a great Idaho bear its hard to find ones that big in this state. With a long winter its hard for them put on the size. Its pictures like that, that make me wish spring was here.